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Carlos Casasús Chairman of the Board CLARA CEO CUDI Developments in Research and Education Infrastructure for Latin America 1

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Major developments are under way Latin America (CLARA) Mexico (CUDI) 2

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Vision A collaboration system of Latin American NREN´s based on advanced networking for research, education and innovation 3

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Objectives Develop the network (Red CLARA) to connect LA NREN´s Establish links among LA NREN´s and between LA NREN´s and other blocks Develop network services Cooperate for scientific and technological development of the region 4

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Organization Started in June 2003 Non profit corporation based in Uruguay 16 countries are members 5

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Alice and CLARA are born May 2002: LA-Europe Madrid summit of heads of state pledge cooperation in Information Society projects June 2002: Heads of LA academic networking efforts meet with EEC and European counterparts in Toledo. Toledo Declaration is signed March 2003: EEC approves information society cooperation funding through the ALICE project May 2003: CLARA charter is signed in Valle Bravo, México November 2004: Network is launched in Brazil 6

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2007-2008 Last year of European funding in 2007 Management resposabilities endorsed fully to CLARA Reconfiguration of the network to reflect end of funding – Use Miami as a new hub because of significatly lower prices – Panama- Miami link to close a South American link 9

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The scenario during 2008 The RedCLARA Network currently connects 12 countries All links at least 34 Mbps, New funding, ALICE2, has been contracted. 4 year poject. – 12 million euros provided by EC – 6 million euros provided by LA NREN´s CLARA has taken over from Dante the management of contracts for the regional network The link to Europe is co-funded by GEANT and CLARA 11

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RedCLARA 2009 CLARA2 tender will take place in March Link to Europe should increase to 2.5 Gbps Will be in the market for Panama-Miami, Panama- Santiago and Panama- Mexico links, IRU´s STM1 links from Central American countries to Miami 15

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Developments in Mexico The Mexican government has announced its intention to undertake a major connectivity project – Increase the capacity of the Mexican NREN – Provide connectivity to a majority of public school buildings ( 200,000) and health centers (20,000) 26

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Develop the backbone 28 Points of presence of the CFE fiber network The Mexican government owns and operates the electric grid. The Comisión Federal de Electricidad has 22,000 kilometers of OPGW fiber throughout Mexico The ministry of Communications and Transport has nnounced that it will contract capacity with CFE to create a National Network for Broad Band promotion

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Central América Plan Puebla Panamá is building an electrical network with 36 fiber OPGW. Interamerican Deveolopment Bank funding in place. Completion expected by 2010. Aiming to secure a fiber pair to interconnect Central American NREN´s to Mexico and Colombia Joint investment with CUDI could allow connecting Guatemala to Mexico and the US 37